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Right hails Dworkin sex campaign

THE feminist writer Andrea Dworkin, who died last week aged 58, is being hailed by conservatives and supporters of family values in America for speaking out against casual sex and pornography.

Derided for years by the right as the archetypal “feminazi” man-hater, the outsize, dungaree-clad writer went on to respect and befriend leading conservatives while becoming alienated from many left-wing champions of women’s rights.

Dworkin’s husband, John Stoltenberg, said last week that the radical feminist had enjoyed the company of conservative writers who “recognised and appreciated her”. He added: “She thought the liberal left in the United States was largely full of shit, to tell the truth, and she hated that so-called mainstream feminism had allied itself there.”

The author of books such as Pornography and Intercourse, Dworkin argued that “heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalised expression of contempt for women’s bodies” and that pornography was an expression of male